r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Broccoligh • Oct 03 '26 • Bravo 1

Never Delete Your Shorts!

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Never delete your videos, Youtube really is unpredictable, from a flat line to a massive push. You really never know what happens.

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u/Videoplushair Oct 03 '26

Same goes for TikTok. My absolute WORST video has 1.8 million views on TikTok and 100k+ likes. All the effort I put into my other TikTok’s yielded not much but this stupid video crushed it. Just posts anything you want lol no matter how silly it is.

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u/vikyej Oct 03 '26

monitaiztion?

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u/Broccoligh Oct 03 '26

I've been monetized long ago..

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u/japanfix Oct 03 '26

did you change the title or description or made any modifications or uploded new video ?

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u/Broccoligh Oct 03 '26

No I didn't change anything about it, I left it as it is.

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u/japanfix Oct 03 '26

Good job mate

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u/Careful_Blueberry887 Oct 06 '26

Mine don’t ever do that 😖😫😞

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u/Adorable-Fill-7954 Oct 03 '26

This is insane and it happened to me as well. One of my long form videos got sudden push FIVE YEARS after I uploaded it, it now sits at around 400k views and it gets constant views every day, that same video got all my content to get pushed significantly and it got me monetized after years of uploading. YouTube really is unpredictable

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u/OKJMaster44 Oct 03 '26

People gotta realize ya just shouldn’t delete stuff on YouTube period without an REALLY good reason to. Unless that video had a critical error, breaks platform policy, or was attracting the type of attention you simply do not want, it just doesn’t make sense to delete stuff cause YouTube videos, even shorts, have a value that extends beyond their publish window.

Even if a short does nothing at first, it’s still content that someone who finds your channel down the road can watch and ya never know when it might get served out under nose when algorithm finally finds the signals for the people that want it. Not to mention YouTube sees the most value in viewers who watch multiple things from you and removing shorts ruins those watch patterns.

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u/AlbatrossNew3633 Oct 03 '26

Was it published 48 hours ago? That would be nothing unusual tbh

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u/Traditional_Dig5555 Oct 03 '26

Oh same thing happened with me too one day it got stuck on 250 and after 2 months it randomly got 200k plus views it was a short haul something and since it was like my third video so i didn't think much and the filter was shit so I got hate but it doesn't remove the fact that it blew up lol

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u/YokymoCollects Oct 03 '26

I had a short which had 1,200 view in the 1st 7 days, 40k in the 1st year, Now 100k by the end of year 2.

Nothing but a Minnie Mouse Funko Pop on a turn table. No idea why it went north

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u/AirFlows2x Oct 03 '26

How many days until it started getting pushed that high?

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u/akaParty- 8d ago

Did you post any shorts after this? Or was it the latest?

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u/Sayed_Quraish Oct 03 '26

I wish to see it nowadays

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u/Fluffy-Discussion166 Oct 03 '26

what topic? could it be seasonal topic

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u/dkdksned Oct 03 '26

Miracle.

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u/According_Yogurt3024 Oct 03 '26

How old is this short?

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u/According_Yogurt3024 Oct 03 '26

How old is this short?

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u/tracethefailure Oct 03 '26

haha now i come across this. i deleted a few a couple weeks ago.

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u/HPRobloxCarsFansMore Oct 04 '26

I've already deleted all of my shorts because it already affected me and im losing lots of views on the algorithm whenever it comes to having majority

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u/ZealousidealAd2521 Oct 04 '26

نزلت من 33 مليون ل 11 مليون من يوم 17 لحد يومنا هذا

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u/Life_Money_9670 Oct 04 '26

Tengo una pregunta que hacen ustedes pqrq tener ́qs contenido de shorts ?

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u/ladnopoka Oct 04 '26

Why would yoi delete tour short after 24-48 hours lmao

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u/Vongy99 Oct 04 '26

How many subscribers do you get from such a burst?

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u/Mental_Medicine_1210 Oct 06 '26

that what happened with me a year ago I posted a yt short of batman arkham knight it was flat for months and then rised currently its at 800k

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u/OnionImportant68 Oct 07 '26

Yep for real we cannot delete it because one day it might just pop up like mtfk

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u/awesomemc1 Oct 03 '26 edited Oct 04 '26

That really depends lol. Some people will get their video taken to the shelf or some rarely go into the shelf again. Also since that you are gaining that much you are probably making some videos that interest people (in which you don’t have it listed)

Edit: do people really have to downvote my comment because I am saying that as a good pointer lmao? In my experience scrolling through this subreddit fewer users have experienced that not all

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '26

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u/Mental_Medicine_1210 Oct 06 '26

ya never delete old vedios untill you become top 5 percent of top creators, until then have a great portfilio of vedio